February 2012
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“No being is assigned by nature to a sex.”
– Jean Baudrillard
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The Pintupi Dreaming-Machine
The collaborative works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari have had far reaching influences across a wide range on disciplines, discursive formations and creative practices. In a reactionary manner Deleuze and Guattari sought to break free of rigid structures, Hegelian dialectics, existential transcendence, non-falsifiable constructs and reified totalities. Adopting a highly idiosyncratic...
a sentence is a ghost of an idea
asfaltics:
— Paul Valéry, Cahiers/Notebooks 4 (1897-99/2010)
Koganei (Tokyo), ca 1986
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“Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the number of mankind.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“Beauty (“in itself”) has nothing to do with the fashion cycle. In...”
– Jean Baudrillard
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“There is no value in isolated facts”
– Bronislaw Malinowski
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“Who safeguards Mount Olympus, Who unites the gods?
Man’s power which in...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but...”
– Michel Foucault
Musings in uncharted territories: Meaningless... →
abysmaldepthsoflife:
Meaningless existence tossed and turned by the waves of time,
Engravings on bitterness worn on jaded ankles as we try,
Walk a path off one of familiarity for the thrill, for the ride,
But it was always our birthright to journey through the crevices of pain,
No one speaks our language for…
“The still life object embodies nature as colonised by human perception”
– James H Rubin
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while...”
– J.D Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye (via stillmindstillcosmos)
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“I’m the future and the past combined, but not quite as good as either of...”
– Noel Fielding
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“Indeed, just as concrete work is abstracted, little by little, into labor power...”
– Jean Baudrillard
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“We await, I predict, the hero of non-action, the catatonic hero, the one beyond...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“Nature, Art, Creation are a unity. Only we have separated it. If we deny...”
– Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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“the rational is always the rationality of an irrational.”
– Gilles Deleuze (via lajouissance)
“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive. Be...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“I am either lacerated or ill at ease
and occasionally subject to gusts of life”
– Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary, trans. Richard Howard (via proustitute)
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“We ‘feel free’ because we lack the very language to articulate our...”
– Slavoj Zizek
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“People ask, So what is this body without organs? – But you’re already on it,...”
– Deleuze and Guattari
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“The theatre of repetition is opposed to the theatre of representation, just as...”
– Gilles Deleuze
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“To the signs and tools of the State, the man of war opposes his weapons and...”
– Deleuze & Guattari
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“the empirical is not known simply as such but as a culturally relevant...”
– Marshall Sahlins
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“History shows that everything that has been thought will be thought again by a...”
– Michel Foucault
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“the cultural order reproduces itself in an as change”
– Marshall Sahlins